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Thread Number: 63992
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Oz 425 Keymatic |
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| Post# 865664 2/5/2016 at 10:46 (2,995 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
Hi Guys,
Managed to pick up a nice pamphlet for an Australian Keymatic from 1971 - Model 425, with wood effect Sudz saver...interesting feature !! Cheers Keith | ||
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| Post# 865675 , Reply# 2 2/5/2016 at 12:20 (2,995 days old) by Keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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Hi Matthew,
Unfortunately i only had time to do a quick scan at work, on the otherside of the brochure it does mention the "only automatic with two entirely different washing actions" however on reading the two wash actions they dont really mention the pulsator action, however they do state a vigorous agitation. I think the washtub was the same size as the UK version. The sudz saver would have been good a nice option on our Keymatic's but again UK did not have the space to have laundry sinks to store the used wash water. I will try and get the back page scanned as soon as i get back to work after i get back to the uk after next week. Keith | ||
| Post# 865682 , Reply# 3 2/5/2016 at 13:05 (2,995 days old) by keymatic3203 (Cardiff UK) | ||
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yes you're quite right about the practicality of a sudsave in the uk, also electricity costs weren't such a factor at that time. If you could afford a keymatic in the 60's you could afford to run it. | ||
Post# 866522 , Reply# 5 2/10/2016 at 17:06 (2,990 days old) by mayfan69  (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Wide body Keymatics
Hi Keith,
Nice pamphlet: please see the link to an older thread and 'Meadowbank's' explanation on why the wide body Keymatics never made it to market here in Australia. He was an engineer at Hoover Australia. Cheers Leon CLICK HERE TO GO TO mayfan69's LINK | ||
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Post# 866591 , Reply# 6 2/11/2016 at 02:07 (2,989 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Australia
Leon
Thank you for the reminder of that earlier thread, gosh what a lot of information we have sloshing around about the Keymatic. And the machines shown in the earlier threads are still safe and well and can, mostly, be seen in ChesterMike's thread "The Sounds Of The Keymatic". Interestingly it seems there are more examples of the earlier slant front models (I can think of at least half a dozen) than the later models but since that earlier thread, to my knowledge, there have been an additional wide body Keymatic & "Matchbox" Keymatic found. What remains missing from the line up is the second series wide body machine with the powder drawer on the front. Al | ||
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